marketing imperative

Whether you’re looking to centralize your content silos or empower your marketing team to more efficiently create and publish content for all your different touchpoints, the right content management system (CMS) is a business imperative. Every organization is at a different point in their ability to drive content velocity. Likewise, every organization has different levels of familiarity with relevant requirements and capabilities to look for in a CMS solution.

The role of marketing is constantly evolving. More than ever, marketing has to prove its impact on the success of the business. Outside executives often believe that marketing exists solely to support sales, or as an arts function that hosts company events and puts logos on t-shirts. With the pressure increasing, the growing imperative for marketers to prove their worth has arrived. It’s time for marketers to take control over the revenue process, earn the respect of their organizational peers, and earn a seat at the table. What must marketers do to be seen as an integral part of the machine that drives revenue and growth?
Download The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Analytics to learn about:
Establishing a culture of accountability
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Embracing revenue performance management
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Implementation across teams, tactics, and technolog

Creating a data-driven, intelligent sales and marketing system is both today’s challenge and tomorrow’s imperative. Marketers can no longer live by “I think, I feel” and sales can no longer manage by “gut instinct.”
Data is the new power currency in sales and marketing, and this is especially true if you want to succeed in an account-based marketing approach. Begin with the end in mind, use data and predictive intelligence to discover and target accounts and decision makers, create targeted content, select channels, deliver an omni-channel experience and measure results.
This ebook will cover seven steps that every account-based marketer and seller should follow to create a successful process for ABM.

Marketing automation is a technology solution that helps enable the seeding, creation, nurturing and acceleration of demand among prospects and customers (see the brief “Marketing Automation Platforms Defined”). Given that marketing automation platforms (MAPs) are an essential component of every b-to-b organization’s marketing infrastructure, organizations understand the need for these platforms, as well as their internal need for optimized processes and skills to leverage them.
However, while most b-to-b marketers understand the value of lead nurturing, lead scoring/prioritization, program and tactic level reporting, and the SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall®, they often struggle to operationalize these processes with MAPs, which is why selecting the right MAP is imperative. In this SiriusView, we describe MAP providers’ differences to help organizations identify which MAPs best meet their needs.

Reacting to our customer’s “moments of truth” will require unique, personalized responses in real time that transcend traditional marketing and span channels and devices. This is more than marketing maturity: it’s the new marketing imperative.

As the marketing landscape continues to shift and evolve, marketers are being tasked with a multitude of responsibilities, not the least of which involves adopting new platforms and strategies to operate in a real-time world and provide relevant content across every conceivable delivery platform. This has opened a whole new world of challenges—and opportunities—for marketers as personalization has been brought to the forefront of the strategy for many organizations. These requirements are making it all the more imperative for organizations to be able to craft robust experiences that are targeted to the needs and desires of all of their customers. In a world where customers have a multitude of options for nearly everything they are looking to purchase—and where new contenders are willing to offer almost anything to gain their business and loyalty if given the opportunity—the demand to know and effectively engage customers has never been greater. Download this whitepaper and discover how

As the marketing landscape continues to shift and evolve, marketers are being tasked with a multitude of responsibilities, not the least of which involves adopting new platforms and strategies to operate in a real-time world and provide relevant content across every conceivable delivery platform. This has opened a whole new world of challenges—and opportunities—for marketers as personalization has been brought to the forefront of the strategy for many organizations. These requirements are making it all the more imperative for organizations to be able to craft robust experiences that are targeted to the needs and desires of all of their customers. In a world where customers have a multitude of options for nearly everything they are looking to purchase—and where new contenders are willing to offer almost anything to gain their business and loyalty if given the opportunity—the demand to know and effectively engage customers has never been greater. Download this whitepaper and discover how

While collecting marketing data is easy, that data is not cast in stone. Securing a marketing data management plan that you can rely on is imperative. This guide provides actionable steps to clean up your data and increase conversions.

It's time to revolutionize marketing team productivity with social business technology. Improving cross-functional collaboration is the new marketing mandate, and social business is the enabler, allowing marketing teams to drive more leads, increase sales, and cut operational costs. Learn how to drive real business results with social business technology.

Download our 2014 Digital Trends report, created in partnership with eConsultancy, to discover the trends that are driving exceptional customer experiences — and the tools you need to gain a competitive edge.
Based on a global survey of more than 2,500 marketers, our report found that customer experience, mobile marketing, and content marketing are major business imperatives for 2014. However, only 23% of marketers believe they have the tools they need to maximize their impact in these areas. Get the report now to uncover more insights for the coming year, including:
- B2C brands will focus on targeting and personalization
- Two-thirds of respondents will experiment with new media
- Brands will zero in on mobile customer behavior

Today’s marketing teams have to work smarter and faster across a growing range of activities and an increasingly diverse array of participants. Improving cross-functional collaboration is the new marketing mandate, and social business is the enabler, allowing marketing teams to drive more leads, increase sales and cut operational costs. Learn how marketers are achieving success with social business technology.

Today’s marketing teams have to work smarter and faster across a growing range of activities and an increasingly diverse array of participants. Improving cross-functional collaboration is the new marketing mandate, and social business is the enabler, allowing marketing teams to drive more leads, increase sales and cut operational costs. Learn how marketers are achieving success with social business technology.

Most CRM systems rely on historical analytics that provide a "rear-view mirror" of your customer relationships, offering little support for the decisions that shape the future. With predictive analytics, you can meet your customers' evolving needs with forward-looking insights that anticipate changes in customer attitudes, preferences, and actions. This white paper from IBM describes how a set of five predictive imperatives can help ensure that your company maximizes the value of its customer relationships and sustains higher levels of revenues and profits.

Recent evolution in the mobile applications market now offers enterprises new opportunities for reaching customers in ways never before possible. In the past 18 months, a number of independent market forces have converged to enable goods-and-services providers to market to specific customers, at specific times, at specific locations. Importantly, such targeted messaging draws on a richer-than-ever set of consumer information, including not only detailed demographics from implicit (inferred) and explicit (user-provided) profiles, but also real-time, location-based data.

Whether you’re an experienced marketing manager, or just starting your career, it’s imperative that you know the fundamentals of search engine marketing and optimization. If for no other reason, you certainly don’t want to let your boss know you’re a marketing dinosaur. This whitepaper details the top 10 myths and errors behind SEO.

In these trying times, no greater low-hanging-fruit opportunity exists than implementing a successful lead-nurturing program. But, creating one requires careful thought and planning – which this paper outlines. What are some key steps your organization should take to building a successful program? What marketing-platform capabilities should you consider to help you get the results you want? Get the answers today!